"All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I donâ€™t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort."

-- Clarice Lispector

#Mistake Quotes #Effort Quotes #Simplicity Quotes

“Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.”

Source : Frank Chodorov (1959). “The Rise & Fall of Society”, p.54, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
“It seemed as if I could see things in her that others couldn't see, qualities which not even she was aware of. It was as I I could already see in her the woman she would later become.”
“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”
“For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately connected with colonialism. So, it is not simply about finding new concepts from anywhere, but being both critical and self-critical and also being very open to what is happening on the ground.”
“Our sense of the free market is variable, shifting from a more welfare-oriented model after the Great Depression to a capital-driven market after the collapse of socialism as a viable alternative.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Youâ€™re too visible, Albert,â€ Hadrian explained. â€œCanâ€™t afford to have our favorite noble hauled to some dungeon where they cut off your eyelids or pull off your fingernails until you tell them what weâ€™re up to.â€ â€œBut if they torture me, and I donâ€™t know the plan, how will I save myself?â€ â€œIâ€™m sure theyâ€™ll believe you after the fourth nail or so,â€ Royce said with a wicked grin.”
“What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.”

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